Current Research Interests

Recreation and tourism resource analysis and planning: Survey research design and implementation, inventory, classification, data storage, assessment of natural resources, level of service assessment, public participation in the planning process, and determination of limits of acceptable change in community development.

Member of Travel and Tourism Research Association (Southeast Chapter Board Member 2003-2006, 2010-present), and Southeastern Tourism Society.

Extensive experience in international tourism research and planning which has included an administrative sabbatical position at The University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands (1999), a teaching sabbatical at CERAM Business School, Sophia-Antipolis, France and University of Innsbruck, Austria (2008), as well as research project work in Mexico, Belize, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Under Review

Mao, Y., D. Morais, J. Smith, G. Brothers, A Spatial Cluster Analysis of Amenities, Tourism, Micro-entrepreneurship and Economic Development in North Carolina and its neighboring states. Submitted to Journal of Travel Research. Under review.

Brothers, G. Tragedy of the Tourism Common: A need for carrying capacities. Submission to Journal of Tourism Recreation Research. Under review.